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Licence Plate Recognition

Council provides more than 6400 parking places in Cairns, including 1400 in the CBD, through a mix of on-street parking and off-street carparks.

Parking regulations, especially on-street parking, is updated regularly as the city grows, and to ensure a regular turnover of vehicles to balance the needs of visitors, shoppers, businesses and employees.

Council is currently investing in a raft of parking changes across the city so we can better respond to complaints and meet community expectations on parking availability.

This includes:

Introduction of Licence Plate Recognition

Making some centre median parking free in the CBD, but time restricted

Upgrading the Lake St multi-storey carpark

Replacing old pay and display machines with newer models that accept credit card payments and have paywave facility